published Oct 20, 2009

​In a remarkable opinion issued today with potential Orange County implications, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit blasted the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for committ...
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published Oct 12, 2009

​It's potentially the most lethal weapon in Linda Ackerman's campaign to defeat Republican county Supervisor Chris Norby for Mike Duvall's open state Assembly seat: sexual misconduct innuendo. The r...
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published Oct 11, 2009

​Congratulations to Orange County web pioneer Len Kranser. Fourteen years ago this month, Kranser created one of the nation's first well-respected blogs, www.eltoroairport.org. Though the batt...
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published Oct 02, 2009

​Folks are always complaining that Congress and state legislatures should not be allowed to meet except for a couple of weeks a year. It's an idea to help curtail the nanny-state notions of politici...
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published Oct 01, 2009

​Lan Quoc Nguyen, the vice president of the Garden Grove Unified School District, recently told a Vietnamese newspaper based in Little Saigon that non-Asian students fear attending classes with Viet...
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published Sep 18, 2009

​A convicted California serial pedophile who despises Jews, cops and African Americans and who forced a kindergarten-age girl he purchased in Vietnam to become a sex slave to not only himself but al...
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published Sep 16, 2009

​Earlier today, Art Pedroza at OrangeJuiceBlog reported that Steven Greenhut, the longtime senior editorial writer and columnist at The Orange County Register, has accepted a job in Sacramento. Thou...
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published September 17, 2009

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published Sep 15, 2009

​He once dreamed of becoming California's first Latino governor. He finagled an improbable transition from Garden Grove police sergeant to the powerful No. 2 post at the Orange County Sheriff's Depa...
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published Sep 09, 2009

​Several media outlets are reporting that Assemblyman Michael D. Duvall (R-Yorba Linda) has resigned amid the scandal uncovered last night by OC Weekly and KCBS/KCAL about his inadvertent admissions...
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published September 10, 2009

published Sep 08, 2009

​SACRAMENTO--Freshmen legislators arriving in
Sacramento receive advice from veteran politicians about the intricacies of
working in California's capital. One of those tips is to remember that
...
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published Sep 02, 2009

​Their numbers have dwindled. Their pay has been cut. They're often strapped with bean-counter goals devoid of editorial meaning. For years, they were forced to work in the same building as Gordon D...
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published Sep 01, 2009

​Jonathan Phong Khanh Tran--dubbed by a homicide detective as "the nicest killer" he'd ever met--has waited 17 months in a California prison in hopes that a state court of appeal would overturn his ...
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published Aug 25, 2009

​One of the amusing aspects of covering Little Saigon politics is watching the world class mental gymnastics performed by the mostly elderly folks determined to spend their lives fighting the Vietna...
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published Aug 21, 2009

​Ian Robert Tedeschi groomed himself as a Southern California bad boy with blond hair, blue eyes and a surgically placed silver ball in the shaft of his penis. The 5-foot-10, 200-pounder bragged tha...
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published Aug 21, 2009

​Here's the police mug shot of Westminster City Councilman Andy Quach, who was arrested on August 2 for driving while wildly intoxicated (three times the level limit, according to police). His Merce...
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published Aug 20, 2009

​Whether you're for or against the creation of the so-called Orange County Great Park, the fallback scheme to block construction of an international airport at the former El Toro Marine Corps Air St...
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